Tim Blair

THE DOWNUNDER adventures continue for

THE DOWNUNDER adventures continue for Andrew Lloyd, currently depleting Australian beer reserves in anticipation of tonight's Sydney-Melbourne AFL match at the SCG. Andrew and wife Karen will attend with Teacher Tony, one of several bloggers who joined us for an evening of mayhem with Andrew on Tuesday night. Those excesses may well be repeated when we catch up after the game. Expect weekend posting to be light and painful.

Talk about your class acts; Andrew brought us a bottle of Junipero to mark this occasion of Anglospheric togetherness. It's sitting menacingly on my desk, awaiting olive and vermouth deployment. Our gift to him in return - he doesn't yet know what it is - will startle and amaze.